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Regional Aquaculture Centers: Extension
Programs
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Regional Aquaculture Centers
North Central Northeastern
Southern
Western
Tropical & Subtropical
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To support aquaculture research, development, demonstration, and extension education to enhance viable and profitable U.S. aquaculture which will benefit consumers, producers, service industries, and the American economy.
Mission of the RACs
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Development of the Centers
• 1987-88: Centers organized and began operation
• Reauthorization of the RAC Program– 1990, 1996, and 2002 Farm Bills
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Exports Imports
Sources: USDC/NOAA/NMFS Current Fisheries Statistics No. 2001, September 2002
U.S. Foreign Trade in Fishery Products
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Regional Center Appropriations
• Authorized at $7.5 million• Initial funding at $3.75 million• Increased to $4 million in 1992• Budget recision in 2001 of 0.22%
($3,991,200)• Budget of $3.996 million for
FY2002 and $4.5 million for FY2003
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Key Features of the Centers• Projects responsive to industry needs and
designed to impact commercial development
• Programs organized to take advantage of the best aquaculture science, education skills, and facilities to achieve region-wide cooperation
• Projects are peer-reviewed for technical and industrial merit
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RAC Organizational Structure
BOARD OF BOARD OF DIRECTORSDIRECTORS
ADMINISTRATIVE CENTERADMINISTRATIVE CENTER
INDUSTRY ADVISORYINDUSTRY ADVISORYCOUNCILCOUNCIL TECHNICAL COMMITTEETECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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North Central Regional Aquaculture Center
(NCRAC)
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• Eat almost 1 billion pounds/year but produce <2%
• Great diversity of species being cultured• Over 1,000 producers; but just a few per
state accounting for most of the production• Food fish, baitfish, fish for stocking
recreational and ornamental water bodies including fee-fishing operations as well as aquatic plants grown for food, wetland mitigation, and water gardening
NCRAC Aquaculture
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ExtensionEcon/MarketingYellow PerchHybrid BassWalleyeSunfishSalmonidsCrayfishBaitfishWastes/EffluentsTilapiaINAD/NADA CoordinatorAquaculture DrugsWhite Papers
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NCRAC Projects
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NCRAC ProjectsExtension 8 $521,552 7.9%Econ/Marketing 4 $302,904 4.6%Yellow Perch 8 $1,433,866 21.7%Hybrid Bass 7 $976,960 14.8%Walleye 7 $927,627 14.1%Sunfish 5 $853,788 12.9%Salmonids 4 $637,742 9.7%Crayfish 1 $49,677 0.8%Baitfish 1 $61,973 0.9%Wastes/Effluents 3 $448,300 6.8%Tilapia 2 $268,791 4.1%
INAD/NADA Coordinator1 $55,241 0.8%Aquaculture Drugs 3 $36,365 0.6%White Papers 2 $22,495 0.3%
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NCRAC-Extension• Limited number of extension specialists
– Increase number of extension contacts– Networking between all NCRAC communities– Non-tradition approaches
• Researchers• Natural resource agencies• Dept. of Agriculture contacts• Other fish farmers• FFA programs
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Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture
(CTSA)
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The CTSA RegionCommonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands
Guam
Republicof Belau
=CTSA
AmericanSamoa
Federated Statesof Micronesia
Republic ofthe MarshallIslands
Hawaii
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CTSA Aquaculture
• Finfish• Ornamentals• Marine sponges• Clams• Oysters
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CTSA Year 1-15 expenditures
Extension15%
Disease24%
Freshwater Orn. F10%
Marine Orn. Fish5%
Freshwater FF9%
Marine FF15%
Marine P roducts7%
Economics Marketing
4%Library
4%
Effluent7%
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CTSA-Extension• PRAISE - Pacific Regional
Aquaculture Information Service for Education Service program serving the U.S. affiliated Pacific
• Web site (http://lama.kcc.hawaii.edu/praise) accessed 5,700 times per month
• 24-hour turn-around time
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Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC)
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• Major species – channel catfish• Other species – ornamentals,
baitfish, hybrid striped bass• Alligators• Crawfish
SRAC Aquaculture
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Genetics 1%Genetics 1%
Health 3%Health 3%
Extension 18%Extension 18%
NutritionNutritionand Feeding and Feeding 34%34%
Production, Water Quality, andProduction, Water Quality, and Environment 25%Environment 25%
Product Product Quality 18%Quality 18%
Marketing and Marketing and Economics 4%Economics 4%
SRAC Expenditures - Subject
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SRAC Extension• Publications, Videos, and Computer
Software
– A continuing project funded at ~$70 K annually
– 170 SRAC fact sheets (on web and CD)– 19 videos– 200+ scientific papers– 200+ scientific presentations– 40+ master’s or doctoral theses
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Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center (NRAC)
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NRAC Aquaculture• Characterized by diversity of
products– Numerous finfish
• Salmon and oysters– Aquatic plants & crustaceans
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NRAC Expenditures: Subject
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NRAC - Extension• Training
– Extension agents– Leadership of both agents and industry contacts
• Publications• Demonstration projects• Workshops
– Fish health– Business management– Effluents/nutrition/financing/legal issues
• Marketing
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Western Regional Aquaculture Center (WRAC)
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WRAC Aquaculture
• Diverse – Cold and warm water species– Marine and fresh water species– Finfish, invertebrates, plants– Most significant production oysters and
trout
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WRAC Project Funding Timeline
IHNV Control $260,400 over 3 yrs.Sturgeon Broodstock $395,000 over 4 yrs.Pacific Oyster Cross-Breeding $393,300 over 4 yrs.Solids Removal $329,153 over 4 yrs.High Performance Feeds $279,044 over 4 yrs.Disease Interactions $128,975 over 3 yrs.Molluscan Shellfish Ecology $400,000 over 4 yrs.Phosphorous Discharge $202,033 up to 2-4 yrs.Sturgeon Broodstock $100,000 up to 1-2 yrs.Pacific Oyster Cross-Breeding $100,000 up to 1-4 yrs.Recirculation Aquaculture $59,645 up to 1-4 yrs.Sturgeon Caviar $57,000 up to 1-4 yrs.
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
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WRAC Project Expenditures by Subject (1987-2002)
Genetics29%
Disease21%
Environmental20%
Nutrition12%
Extension4%Other
5%Project
Development8%
Product Quality1%
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WRAC-Extension• Integration of extension and research
projects• Outreach programs made by both
extension and researchers• “rapid response” funds• Workshops participants are from
both industry and regulatory agencies
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AquaNIC(http://aquanic.org)
• 8,000 files (publications, photographs, slide sets, videos, directories, etc.)
• Links to over 1,000 aquaculture Web sites
• 600 links from other Web sites• 5,000 “hits” per month by people
from over 80 countries
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• Scientific contributions• Graduate education• Internet presence
– NRAC - http://www.old.umassd.edu/specialprograms/nrac/welcome.html
– NCRAC - http://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/aquanic/ncrac/ – SRAC - http://www.msstate.edu/dept/srac/ – WRAC - http://www.fish.washington.edu/wrac/– CTSA - http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/external/ctsa/
• Bang for the buck• Ingrained
Other Contributions